Novel draws from “all of life’s experience,” Sandra Lee says

Celebrity chef and newly minted novelist Sandra Lee said her first-ever fiction book draws from her “life’s experience,” but stopped short of saying whether a character in the novel is based on her real-life partner—Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

In an appearance on NBC’s The Today Show, Lee said the novel—“The Recipe Box” focuses on “generations of women coming together and kind of the pains of what a family goes through.” (You can watch the interview below.)

Lee and Cuomo share a home in New Castle, Westchester County. She largely stays out of the political spotlight, appearing in Albany only for major public events like Cuomo’s inaugural and State of the State addresses and for an annual open house at the Executive Mansion.